All,
I have been using sub-file backup capabilities since earlier July and works
great. Reduced my backup time considerably especially on my WAN clients that
would take as much as 11 hours to backup now backs up in about 6 to 7 hours.
I have also done several restores with no problems to date.
Server AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.1.3
Clients NT4.0 TSM Client 4.1.2.12
Win2k TSM client 4.2.0
Bruce E. Lowrie
Sr. Systems Analyst
Information Technology Services
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-----Original Message-----
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: .PST files
We're in the same boat - MANY .pst files larger than 500 MB. We have a very
fast network, but the load on the server is getting huge, and a BIG part of
it is those .pst files.
I've been testing the subfile backup capability over the last 2 weeks for
just this reason, and it works great!
Cuts that 500MB .pst backup down to 10-20 MB in cases I've tested. Of
course, I'm sure it depends on how much of the .pst file you change.
My only complaint (a nit) is that the dsmsched.log file still shows the
full size of the file as being sent, instead of the subfile size-- you have
to check results by looking at the total bytes sent stats at the end of the
backup. (Actually for testing I set up a schedule that backs up nothing but
my .pst files so as to get a real understaning of what was happening.)
Now the ONLY config I've tested is:
TSM AIX server 4.1.3
Win2K client 4.2.0
I've done restores with no problem, even done a full bare-metal restore with
no problem. Can't break it, and that's good!. I'm planning to turn it on
system-wide on Nov. 1.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-IS/CIS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:56 PM
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Subject: Re: .PST files
We do backup .pst files with normal incremental backups.
BUT, as they grow very fast and get backedup after every Outlook logoff, we
are very interested in the subfile adaptive mode of the backups in V4. I
hope it will allow backup of only changed/added bytes, instead of the whole
file every time. We have many .pst file larger than 500 MB.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua S. Bassi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: mardi, 23. octobre 2001 20:25
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> Subject: Re: .PST files
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> The only way to backup .pst files to close Outlook before the backup.
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> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:04 AM
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> Subject: .PST files
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> Hello everyone.
>
> What, if anything, does anyone do concerning TSM backing up .PST files?
> We
> are beginning to address this issue.
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